BREAKING: Ex-FirstEnergy Execs' #Bribe #Trial Ends After #Jury Hits #Impasse
An Ohio judge on Tuesday dismissed a jury weighing #charges that two former FirstEnergy Corp. #executives #bribed a #utility #regulator to help secure a controversial $1.3 billion #bailout for two of the company's #nuclear #plants, after the jury reported an impasse following more than a week of deliberations. [Law360[
N.S. Power says meters are back online after last year’s hack broke communications
The new CEO of Nova Scotia’s private electric utility says the firm has hit key milestones in its recovery from last year’s cyberattack.
#Canada #NovaScotiaPower
https://globalnews.ca/news/11753431/nova-scotia-power-smart-meter-back-online/

Private Equity Stakeholder Project PESP | Ratepayers and stakeholders weigh in on whether the proposed acquisition of Minnesota Power by Global Infrastructure Partners and BlackRock is in the public interest by media

As the proceeding to determine whether ALLETE, the parent company of Duluth-based utility Minnesota Power, can be purchased by the BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), ratepayers are voicing their concerns about a private equity firm buying their utility. PESP has been supporting local organizing efforts by participating in community education events to explain how private…

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#ratepayers #minnesotapower #privateequity #utility #communityeducation

Shifting from Parcifal to Parfit, I'm debating the value of moral maths that seem to be an outgrowth of the attempt to couch everything as utility and economics.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/30/the-blind-spot-of-moral-maths/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #morality #psychology #economics #utility #math #mathematics #blog #essay #writing #podcast #reading #parfit #reason #academia #enlightenment #medical #intervention #hospital
NB Power should operate independently without political interference, review says
A new independent report is recommending New Brunswick overhaul its debt-saddled public utility to focus on efficiency.
#Canada #NBPower
https://globalnews.ca/news/11751700/nb-power-report-released/
NB Power should operate independently without political interference, review says
A new independent report is recommending New Brunswick overhaul its debt-saddled public utility to focus on efficiency.
#Canada #NBPower
https://globalnews.ca/news/11751700/nb-power-report-released/
NB Power should operate independently without political interference, review says
A new independent report is recommending New Brunswick overhaul its debt-saddled public utility to focus on efficiency.
#Canada #NBPower
https://globalnews.ca/news/11751700/nb-power-report-released/
N.B. Power disagrees that battery storage is better solution for risk of energy shortfall
An N.B. Power executive says a large scale battery proposal is not a replacement for a gas and diesel power plant proposed for rural Tantramar. Brad Coady says that according to cost information the utility gathered, a battery option would not be cheaper.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-disputes-assertion-battery-storage-better-solution-9.7144182?cmp=rss

People seem to love philosophical trolley problems, but they expose more about ontological grammar than a morality profile.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/28/how-trolley-problems-launder-metaphysics-into-intuition/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

The first of a 2-part series on the trolley problem. Part 2 will extend the issue out of the lab and into reality with autonomous devices.

#philosophy #psychology #morality #ontologicalgrammar #harm #trolleyproblem #choice #legibility #acculturation #society #ethics #deontology #virtue #consequences #utility #value #stoicism #blog #podcast